Can I just talk about how important this press conference is to me. He just got back from Afghanistan after months of torture. He refused to go to the hospital and instead immediately went to a press conference. He could barely stand, and instead had everybody sit with him, but he showed up.
“We have become comfortable with a system of zero accountability” Tony’s first thought when he arrived home, now aware that bad people were using his weapons was to stop it. He didn’t go to the hospital or to his own home. He went to the public and told them.
‘Hey bad shit happened because of me, so I’m going to hold me accountable, and I’m gonna tell you what I’m going to do so you can hold me accountable too.’
Now when I get home from vacation the only thing I want to do is go home, and I don’t generally have emotionally scarring things happen during my vacations. I just miss my home. After months in Afghanistan I’m sure Tony did too. Yet he prioritized shutting down weapons to that. Which he should have, but it shows incredible strength of character.
I’m just so proud of him as a character. Like good for you Tony.
but he’s a villain remember. no matter what tony does, his past will always be brought up time and time again. he’ll be called a war profiteer, no matter how many times he helps rebuild, fund, and better the world.
tony is in many ways, like all of us, all of us who are struggling with depression and still trying our best everyday to get out to bed, to go to work, to function in normalized society. we’ll always be shunned for our mental illness, attacked for impulses we can’t help, and looked down upon for existing.
when i watch the iron man series, i see a reflection of me. a person who makes mistakes and grows from them, and never stops trying to make it right.
ugh. words can’t explain how much i love tony fucking stark.
dredsina